Guide for sewing-machines



(:No Model.)

W. RAEUCHLE. GUIDE FOR SEWING MAGHINES.

No. 490,885. I Patented Janhs -la s.

STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILLIAM RAEUCHLE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,885, dated January31, 1893.

Application filed April 1, 1892. Serial No. 427,380. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RAEUOHLE, of Boston, county of Suffolk,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Guides forSewing-Machines, of which the following description,in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved gage for use inquilting, or parallel stitching, or-edge-stitching, the gage beingprovided with means whereby it may be readily thrown into or out ofoperative position as desired, and be retained in either of itspositions.

Figure 1, in front elevation represents a sufficient portion of a sewingmachine with my improved gage applied to illustrate my invention. Fig.2, is a topor plan view of one of my improved gages, and Fig. 3, showsthe ,sleeve and a collar a detached.

The head A; needle-bar B; needle 0; presser-bar B; and presser-foot Eare and may be as usual in sewing machines.

In accordance with my invention I provide a block F, and by a screw G,or otherwise, I secure the block in place on the presser-bar. The blockconstitutes abearing for the sleeve H having a ratchet H, said sleevebeing mounted loosely in the block and kept from moving longitudinallyby the collar a, ap-" plied thereto. The shank m of the gage m isextended through to the sleeve and con fined thereto by the set screw mso that the said sleeve may be rotated partially and take with it thegage. The ratchet H is acted upon by a suitable spring b'shown asattached by a screw 1) to a depending arm of the block F, the shape ofthe block and the strength of the spring being such as to enable thegage m to be kept in its operative position either near the bed of themachine the presser-foot, according to the work to be done. When turneddown into its full line position, the face having a straight edge andlocated at one side of the presser-foot, may be used as a quilting gage,or as an edge gage.

My improved gage, for the greatest economy in cost, will be made of wirebent into shape.

A quilting gage carried bya block secured to a resser-bar is not broadlynew but prior to my invention I am not aware that a gage of the classreferred to has ever-had co-operating with it a spring controlledlocking device whereby the gage may be held in either its operative orinoperative position, or as represented by full and by dotted lines,without removal of any parts or the employment of any screws. The gageis free to vibrate against the action of the spring, yet it isrestrained positively from any accidental longitudinal movement.

This invention is not limited to the exact shape shown for the foot orgage end of the guide.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s:-

1. A gage havinga face and a right-angled shank, a block to constitute abearing for the sleeve, and a sleeve mounted loosely therein and havinga shouldered hub or wheel said shank being connected to the sleeve,combined with a locking device co-operating with said shouldered hub andadapted to retain it and the gage with its face in operative, or ininoperative position, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The presser-bar, the bearing, and the sleeve movable axially thereinand provided with the toothed portion H, combined with a gage having asubstantially right-angled shank, means to adjust said gage shank andsleeve longitudinally one with relation to the other, and a lockingspring to co-operate with said toothed portion to retain the gage raisedor lowered, substantially as described.

3. The presser-bar, its block F, the sleeve axially movable therein, andrestrained from longitudinal movement, and the gage having the gage faceand a right-angled shank extended through and longitudinally movablename to this specification in the presence of in said sleeve, wherebythe gage face may be two subscribing Witnesses. adjusted toward and fromthe line of stitching and presser-bai', combined with means to WVILLIAMRAEUOHLE' 5 retain the adjusted shank fixed in the sleeve, Witnesses:

substantially as described. FREDERICK L. EMERY,

In testimony whereof I have signed. my EDWARD F. ALLEN.

